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Top Seeded Cardinals Win Title
Monster game caps
emotional quest
(A P)— The last of the Louisville
players to get the scissors, Kevin
Ware stood in front of the basket as
it was lowered to him. Grinning from
ear to ear, he cut what remained of
the net.
"It's not about me, I've never
been that type of guy," Ware said.
"These are my brothers. They got
the job done."
They always do.
A team that found inspiration in
Ware's horrible broken leg wasn't
about to let a little thing like an off
night by its biggest star, Russ Smith,
keep it from cutting down the nets.
Luke Hancock made four straight 3-
pointers in the first half, and Peyton
Siva and Chane Behanan had mon
ster second halves to lead the top-
seeded Cardinals to their third na
tional title and first since 1986 on
Monday night with an 82-76 victory
over Michigan.
"I'm so happy for our team," said
Hancock, named the tournament's
most outstanding player. "I'm so
happy that multiple guys got to
contribute on this great run."
The Legend
"Kevin Ware would do anything
to be out there. We were just all
locked in for him, and also for our
selves and our coaching staff," said
Behanan, Ware's best friend on the
team. "Kevin was a big part o f this
team, and to see him go down was
devastating. It was a big motivator
for us."
Hancock finished with 22 points,
including a perfect 5 for 5 from 3-
point range. Siva had 14 of his 18
points in the second half, and
Behanan had 11 of his 12 rebounds
in the second half. Behanan also
chipped in 15 points for Louisville
(35-5), which finished the season on
a 16-game winning streak.
"We beat a great basketball team
probably because I have the 13
toughest guys I have ever coached,"
said Rick Pitino, who became the
first coach to win titles with two
different schools hours after he was
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino and Louisville guard Peyton Siva (3) reacts after Louisville de
elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame.
feated Michigan in the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game Monday
Pitino, who sets the fashion trend
in Atlanta. Louisville won 82-76. (AP photo)
among college coaches with his
And every one of them was in on arm, earned them to the mosh pit win" after his tibia snapped during
designer suits, now has to get a
the celebration.
that quickly formed at center court, the Midwest Regional final, and he
tattoo afterpromising his team early
Siva leaped off the floor to hug
In the most touching moment o f made good on his promise to join
in the year he'd get inked if they won
his family when the final buzzer all, Ware hobbled onto the court for them when they cut down the nets,
the title.
sounded. Behanan picked up two the final seconds of the game. He
cheerleaders and, with one in each had urged his teammates to "just go
that's ever going to be eradicated.
Society has to stay on guard about
it and not get complacent about it."
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Boseman, who bears a remark
a pitcher who'd dinged him earlier able resem blance to Robinson,
in the year, it's a dramatic moment, grew up playing basketball but said
but it also actually happened.
he learned of Robinson's impor
It's always a tricky thing be tance around the same time he first
cause it's a movie, and even in this learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s
movie we're trying to tell two years crucial role in fighting for civil rights
in two hours," he said. "You're Robinson's uniform number has
obviously not seeing every m o been retired throughout the league
ment, but the discipline I applied to - only New York Yankees closer
the script was trying to make sure Mariano Rivera still wears it, and
every moment was documented." he's retiring after this season - but
Helgeland began working on the every year on April 15, everyone in
film two years ago, with the bless baseball wears No. 42.
ing of Robinson's widow, Rachel,
"The story is relevant because
because he felt Robinson "deserves we still stand on his shoulders.
a great, big m ovie." Robinson him He started som ething - I would
self starred in the 1950 biography even say m aybe he didn't even
"The Jackie R obinson Story," start it, it started before him. But
which also details how Brooklyn he carried the torch. And he car
Dodgers president and general ried it alone for a period of time
manager Branch Rickey (played before other people could help
here by a feisty Harrison Ford) had him," Bosem an said.
the courage to sign the fleet-footed
Still, it's a challenge to depict the
Negro League player, despite re life of someone who was so inspi
ceiv in g d isco u rag em en t from rational without deifying him.
around the league and death threats
In "42," which opens Friday,
from fans.
April 12, Robinson shows grace in
"People would say to me, 'You're the face of nearly incessant big
making another Jackie Robinson otry. That's why Rickey chooses
movie?' and I'd say, 'What was the him of all the talented black base
other one you saw?"' Helgeland ball players at the time: He had the
said. "(Racism is) always going to skills, but he also had the strength
be a relevant thing. It's not a thing not to fight back.
Abusive Coach Fired
(A P )--O n ce the video went viral, his coaching Rutgers University
days at Rutgers were over.
fired basketball
Mike Rice Jr., the son of Blazer broadcaster Mike
coach Mike Rice
Rice, was fired last week, one day after a video
Jr. after a video
surfaced of him hitting, shoving and berating his
was made public
players with anti-gay slurs. The taunts were espe
o f him kicking
cially troubling behavior at Rutgers, where freshman
and shoving
studentTylerClementi killedhimself in 2010afterhis
players and
roommate used a webcam to spy on him kissing spew ingla^shj'rs
another man in his dorm.
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during practices.
Rice, in his third season with the Scarlet Knights,
apologized outside his home in Little
Silver, N. J.
"I've let so many people down:
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my players, my adm inistration,
Rutgers University, the fans, my
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family," he said.
The video shows numerous clips
of Rice at practice during his three
years at the school firing basketballs
at players, hitting them in the back,
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legs, feet and shoulders. It also shows
him grabbing players by their jersey s
and yanking them around the court.
Rice can also be heard yelling ob
scenities and using gay slurs.
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